This is the sort of story that should have started in a pub. At closing time. But it didn’t.
Instead, it was at a family barbecue, where my dad mentioned to me that a friend was downsizing and had an old Mini in the garage that he was going to have to get rid of. He asked if I knew anyone who was looking for a Mini project: “It probably needs a lot of work as it’s been off the road a while.”
Now, and this is quite a confession in this illustrious tome, although I like Minis, have been in lots of them and have photographed countless examples over the years, I’d never actually owned one. So, having a YouTube channel and a storage unit, I had the excuse, the means and the motive to
